Thank you so much for the question and for bringing in the Canadian Rangers. They are very active in emergency response and historically they've been very active in emergency response. They've responded to forest fires and floods and avalanches, and not always just from their communities, but also in adjacent communities.
I do agree with your comments that any way we can strengthen the emergency response capabilities of the Canadian Rangers will benefit their communities and adjacent communities a great deal. Now that said, if you're going to be emphasizing this role for the Canadian Rangers, the ability of Canadian Rangers headquarters staff to actually support that also has to be facilitated, so I think increasing the number of administrative personnel who Canadian Rangers patrol groups have access to who can help facilitate these operations is going to be vital if the Canadian Rangers are given a broader kind of disaster workforce role moving forward in the north.
We're focused on the Arctic, and I work a lot with community responders in Nunavut. One of the ideas they have for emergency management that will hopefully alleviate some of the need to bring in outside help are Inuit public safety officers. These are officers who, if the program was developed, could be focused on marine safety, emergency preparedness, search and rescue, fire prevention. There are models for this that exist in Alaska, for instance. Again, having that local capability, I think, would go a long way to protecting communities in the north who are so distant and so far removed from external assistance coming from the south. As much as we can build up that robust local capacity which is important everywhere, it's even more important in the Arctic, given their remoteness and isolation and the time it takes for the south to get there.